Highlighted Artwork: The Fall into Paradise

Bill Viola's The Fall into Paradise

Still from Bill Viola's 2005 video installation, The Fall into Paradise

Most people, if they're going to fall anywhere in the vicinity of paradise, are likely to fall from it. Bill Viola's installation from 2005, The Fall into Paradise shows a couple who seem to have reversed the process and entered their own private Eden.

Featured in its own magical, black box theater in Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image on the museum's third floor, Viola's work is a meditation on time, love, life, and all things that sustain us.

Read more about Bill Viola and The Fall into Paradise on the American Art Museum's blog, Eyelevel

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Image credit: Bill Viola, The Fall into Paradise, 2005, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment © 2005, Bill Viola